From: Elias P. <el...@us...> - 2008-08-27 14:56:33
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On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 20:21 +1000, Peter Wang wrote: > What you do you think about a variant of al_create_queue() which takes a > list of event sources to register? > > queue = al_create_queue_register(display, al_get_keyboard(), > al_get_mouse(), timer, NULL); > > Might reduce boilerplate a bit. > Sounds good to me. I'd also like a way to reduce all the *init calls, maybe something like: al_init(ALLEGRO_KEYBOARD | ALLEGRO_MOUSE | ALLEGRO_JOYSTICK | ALLEGRO_IIO | ALLEGRO_FONT | ALLEGRO_KCM_AUDIO) or maybe al_init("keyboard", "mouse", "joystick", "iio", "font", "kcm_audio", NULL) The latter once would allow finding addons at runtime. There also would be a shortcut forum: al_init(ALLEGRO_ALL) or al_init("all", NULL) Personally, I would then always use the all variant :) But nobody would be forced, al_init(0/NULL) would keep working. For addons, I think we might want to adopt the old modules mechanism (all of which are gone now I think). So al_init("iio") could actually try to locate <allegro-modules-path>/liba5_iio.so and try to initialize it, just like it worked with modules in A4 - I think that would make linking much easier. -- Elias Pschernig <el...@us...> |